Post by benrama on Jun 11, 2008 3:38:30 GMT -5
I live in an area whose prime industry is tourism, so I’ve seen some pretty odd behaviors from out-of-towners, but this was a first.
I’m riding down Edgewater Drive, a nice little 1+1 road that runs (surprise!) along the water, behind an Expedition with out-of-state plates. Everything appears normal until the truck in front of her makes a left turn (not into the bay). I notice that as s/he (sex withheld to avoid controversy) begins to accelerate, s/he is veering dangerously close to the curb on the right. I slide a bit to the left to see what’s going on in that enormous cab, and what do I see?
The driver is attempting to take a cell-phone camera picture of me, through the reflection in the side-view mirror! I hear myself saying, “Oh my god, we’re all going to die. What the *&^ is s/he doing?
” (I have a habit of talking to myself when I’m wearing my full face helmet).
As I’m gaping in astonishment and flashing my brake light like a madman to alert the cars behind me to the imminent crash, the Expedition crosses the center double yellow, into oncoming traffic, apparently adjusting the zoom. I, decide that, since this nut obviously sees me, I should hide, maybe making them change their mind about this great photo opp.. So I change lane position (slowing all the while) to the right, hoping the camera-phone will be at least handed to a passenger, but no, the driver has now slowed to five mph n order o stop all that annoying blur. WTF? The truck is a full tire over the center line, and oncoming traffic has now also slowed to a crawl, in order to lessen the impact, as they swerve around.
So, s/he either got the shot or gave up, because the wreck never happened and s/he started driving like nothing was amiss, and that this was every-day traffic behavior. Whoa.
So, some nut somewhere has a grainy 2MB picture of a yellow and blue blur in traffic. I hope they’re happy, ‘cause I was stupefied.
I’m riding down Edgewater Drive, a nice little 1+1 road that runs (surprise!) along the water, behind an Expedition with out-of-state plates. Everything appears normal until the truck in front of her makes a left turn (not into the bay). I notice that as s/he (sex withheld to avoid controversy) begins to accelerate, s/he is veering dangerously close to the curb on the right. I slide a bit to the left to see what’s going on in that enormous cab, and what do I see?
The driver is attempting to take a cell-phone camera picture of me, through the reflection in the side-view mirror! I hear myself saying, “Oh my god, we’re all going to die. What the *&^ is s/he doing?
” (I have a habit of talking to myself when I’m wearing my full face helmet).As I’m gaping in astonishment and flashing my brake light like a madman to alert the cars behind me to the imminent crash, the Expedition crosses the center double yellow, into oncoming traffic, apparently adjusting the zoom. I, decide that, since this nut obviously sees me, I should hide, maybe making them change their mind about this great photo opp.. So I change lane position (slowing all the while) to the right, hoping the camera-phone will be at least handed to a passenger, but no, the driver has now slowed to five mph n order o stop all that annoying blur. WTF? The truck is a full tire over the center line, and oncoming traffic has now also slowed to a crawl, in order to lessen the impact, as they swerve around.
So, s/he either got the shot or gave up, because the wreck never happened and s/he started driving like nothing was amiss, and that this was every-day traffic behavior. Whoa.
So, some nut somewhere has a grainy 2MB picture of a yellow and blue blur in traffic. I hope they’re happy, ‘cause I was stupefied.
